ASEAN Intellectual Property (IP) Register
Jurisdiction - General Information
ASEAN Intellectual Property (IP) Register is not an authority issuing patents but a regional IP informationplatform.
ASEAN Intellectual Property (IP) Register was originally established in 2017 as “ASEAN PATENTSCOPE” by
ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao
People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam), withthe collaboration of the patent offices of the member countries and the support of the WIPO. It
currently provides an access point for searching public patent documents from all the jurisdictions
members with the exception of Myanmar.
It was then relaunched as ASEAN Intellectual Property (IP) Register in 2023. Information about theproject can be found here.

Online Patent Register and Online Gazette
Even though an Online Register and an Online Gazette are not provided, ASEAN Intellectual Property(IP) Register where legal status information for patents of some member countries could be retrieved at
this link, where also information about its coverage are available.

Features and search functionalities
On ASEAN Intellectual Property (IP) Register, it is possible to search for patents on an Arabic, English,French, Indonesian and Japanese interface by PCT Application/Publication Number,
Applicant/Inventor Name, and Priority Data, and to retrieve information on Legal Status and PCT
National Phase Entry.
Full publications of the PCT entered in a member country can be retrieved through a link to the WIPO
PATENTSCOPE included in the bibliographic data of the document.

Additional Information
Particularities of patent protection in the jurisdictions covered by the ASEAN IntellectualProperty (IP) Register platform
With regard to Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs), referral is made to national regulations.
Myanmar is the only ASEAN country which is not currently a Contracting Party to the Patent
Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Search tips
The ASEAN Intellectual Property (IP) Register has been made with the platform WIPO Publish, allowing a
selection through a slider button between a search limited to the most frequently used fields and abroader one enlarged to a wide number of search fields, some of which however could be left empty.

In addition, by clicking on one country name on the right side of the home page, the complete list of thatcountry national patents covered by the platform will be shown.
Search by national number in the field "Filing No." must be done without including the country code(e.g. input PI 2018001535 to retrieve the application filed in Malaysia).
Basic legal status information is included in the bibliographic record, e.g. "Registered" for Brunei
application n. N/2017/0056, or by clicking on the tab "STATUS".
Search results can be viewed in a list or in a table format. Texts are displayed in English or in the original
language (Thai records are shown in Thai characters), for some documents however an English abstract
is also provided and for PCT entered in a member country an English abstract is always available.
In the bibliographic record by clicking on the Applicant or the Inventor names a pop-up window opens
showing a list of their patents, hyperlinked to the corresponding record.